THE CRY OF THE GO-AWAY BIRD, by Andrea Eames (Harvill Secker, $37.99). Eames shies away from neither the shortcomings of the whites – including her narrator – nor the actions of the blacks attacking them in this wonderful evocation of early 2000s Zimbabwe through the eyes of a teenage girl living on a farm with her mother and stepfather. What really makes the novel is Eames’s striking descriptive language and acute attention to detail.
Wow! Thank you!
You can see the rest of the list here. I really want to read The Stranger's Child.
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Wow I am so not surprised by this!!!!!!!! Congratulations sweet!!! You are so very clever. Love V
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